Safari and the wild savannah

The Great Migration, and nights on the plains far from anywhere.

Kenyafrom 8 days13 stops

Free, no account needed. You'll still be able to change dates, travellers and the rest.

Where it goes

Sheldrick Wildlife Trust
A rescue centre for orphaned elephants. It opens for visits one hour a day and must be booked: it is a working rehabilitation centre, not a show.
Giraffe Centre
A breeding programme for the endangered Rothschild's giraffe. You feed them from a platform level with their heads.
Museo Karen Blixen
The home of the author of Out of Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills. It explains where the romantic idea of the safari comes from.
Preparar el safari aquí
This is where you hire the 4x4 with a driver-guide and change money. Outside the city there are almost no cash machines and no reliable coverage.

La Gran Migración
The Mara river crossing concentrates the spectacle between July and October. Outside those months the reserve is still extraordinary, but the migration is not there.
Globo aerostático al amanecer
You take off in the dark and watch dawn break over the savannah with the animals below. It is expensive and booked ahead, but it is what people remember most.
Los cinco grandes
Lion, leopard, elephant, buffalo and rhino. The leopard is the hard one: it takes several drives and a guide who knows where to look.
Visita a un poblado masái
The Maasai own this land and run the conservancies. Go with a lodge that shares its income with the community.
Salida de madrugada
The cats hunt at night and at first light. Whether you see them or not depends more on your departure time than on the place.

Los flamencos del lago
Numbers swing enormously with the water level: some years there are hundreds of thousands, others barely any.
Rinocerontes blancos y negros
Being a fenced sanctuary makes it one of the most reliable places in Kenya to see rhino.
Baboon Cliff
The viewpoint over the whole lake, with the flamingos' pink visible from above when the season obliges.
El Valle del Rift
The geological fault that runs down the continent, crossed on the drive. There are signposted viewpoints on the road out of Nairobi.

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